The Company has had long experience in the management of estates. If you name the Company as executor under your will, you will be assured that your beneficiaries will receive considerate and courteous attention and that your trust estate will be wisely managed and profitably invested. [Illustration: _Trust Department_] [Illustration: THE OLD SPANISH AND MEXICAN RANCHOS _of_ Los Angeles County High-resolution Map] Transcriber’s Notes —Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication. —Corrected a few palpable typographical errors. —In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_. End of Project Gutenberg's The Romance of the Ranchos, by E. Palmer Conner